lion to call for Mexican troops and money. He feared Castillero's arrival with an order that if no change had yet been made in the governorship none need be made. It was as much for his interest to avoid a delay in the transfer as for Alvarado's interest to secure it. His influence over his brother was of course great, and the latter followed his lead without hesitation.
On December 1st the Angelinos, as representatives of the supreme government, took possession of a house that had been rented as a temporary capitol.[1] Next day Juan Bandini seems to have delivered an oration before the ayuntamiento.[2] On the 4th the same illustrious body in an extra session received formal notice that Don Cárlos would take the oath of office, thus assuming the governorship, on the 6th, at 9 A. M. It was thereupon resolved to prepare the sala capitular, to open a subscription for funds wherewith duly to solemnize the act, to issue tickets of invitation to prominent citizens, to obtain a big cannon from San Gabriel for salvos, and to illuminate the city for three nights. At last the day arrived, and the ayuntamiento met in public session; José Antonio Carrillo made a speech; Cárlos Carrillo took the oath and delivered an address; mass and te deum followed at the church; and the enthusiastic Angelinos proceeded to their new governor's house to shout their vivas and overload him with congratulations.[3]
The address of Don Cárlos was circulated among the people.[4] It was of the congratulatory and grand-
- ↑ Los Angeles, Ayuntamiento Records, MS., 24. The house was that of the widow Josefa Alvarado, rented of John Temple for $360 per year, the negotiations having begun in September.
- ↑ There is some mystery about this speech, which is fragment of a blotter in Bandini's handwriting, headed 'Discourse pronounced by the Síndico J. B. in the session of Dec. 2d,' in Bandini, Doc., MS., 46. Bandini was not a síndico at all in that year or the next. The speech, however, amounts to nothing, being apparently an argument in favor of a meeting of the asamblea departamental.
- ↑ Sessions of Dec. 4th, 6th. Los Angeles, Arch., MS., iv. 331-5.
- ↑ Carrillo, Discurso que pronunció al tomar el mando político en Los Angeles, el 6 de Dic. 1837, MS.
